The foreign media has begun to realize that the COVID-19 situation in Japan is different, but I’m puzzled by all the criticism we’ve faced....
The 102nd edition of the National High School Baseball Championship has been canceled due to the COVID-19 pandemic, it was announced on Wednesday, May 20. ...
(First of Two Parts) The novel coronavirus has forced performers, who are normally so used to hopping around the world, to stay home —...
I must admit I thought the emergence of COVID-19 would have little impact on the rural area where I live in Japan. The situation changed in...
I keep looking for news articles in Japan with this title. They are nowhere to be seen, but here we are: The Japanese approach...
The Osaka Evessa, a B. League first-division team, coped with a scary situation earlier this spring. Thirteen members of the Kansai-based basketball organization, including several...
On February 26, the New York Times (NYT) published an opinion piece by Koichi Nakano, identified only as “professor of political science at...
Amid measures taken against the COVID-19 pandemic, female heads of states, such as Taiwan’s President Tsai Ing-wen, are being lauded for their leadership. Their...
While the novel coronavirus has rampaged around the world, Japan has avoided an explosion of the infection and contained the virus in the initial...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to spread worldwide, and Shota Katagiri, a Japan Overseas Cooperation Volunteer (JOCV) of the Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA), is...
Japan’s oldest ocean liner, Hikawa Maru (Nippon Yusen Kabushiki Kaisha, NYK Line), which moors at Yamashita Park in Yokohama City, marked her 90th anniversary on...
As questions hound the Chinese leadership at home and abroad over the origin, outbreak, and failure to contain the virus, Xi Jinping’s foremost challenge...